Revealing Ourselves to Clients

By Deborah Buckwalter - The first time I saw Michael, I could barely distinguish his form as human. A young man in his 20s, Michael had been the sole survivor of a plane crash. The sight of him was unlike anything I’d witnessed before, as was his question that left me confronting everything I'd come to believe about therapist self-disclosure.

Revealing Ourselves to Clients

By Deborah Buckwalter - The first time I saw Michael, I could barely distinguish his form as human. A young man in his 20s, Michael had been the sole survivor of a plane crash. The sight of him was unlike anything I’d witnessed before, as was his question that left me confronting everything I'd come to believe about therapist self-disclosure.